On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:27:45AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > No. You've just destroyed your libraries in a way that's worse than just > deleting them since now you will need to wade through strange error > messages which are trying to tell you why your stripped libraries no > longer work.
Stripping symbols from a .a archive does render it useless, but I suspect otherwise you're thinking about .so libraries. Archives are only used at link-time. ld.so(1) deals with shared objects files (i.e., .so files).
